omg hiiii

Full context from the submitter: when I was in high school, our school had a strict hair policy for both boys and girls. Boys have to have this specific hairstyle. Girls' hair length cannot be longer than blah blah blah. Every month on a specific date we have to let our teachers check our hair to see if it's acceptable. But sometimes teachers will just randomly check any day they want, with no heads up, during morning assembly before classes start. If they see that your hair is too long (girl) or if it's not in the correct style (boy) they will use a pair of scissors to cut it right then and there. BUT they never cut it so that it's "correct and acceptable" again. They cut it so that it's ugly — and students are humiliated because morning assembly is public, every student is there — and then we will have to have it fixed at a salon ourselves after school. If we don't fix it by the next day, there will be a punishment. I'm not U.S. based but apparently this is very common for most schools in my country, even today. Parents are okay with it because "it's always been this way since forever and they went through the same thing when they were kids / teenagers too".